Speciale missarum s[e]c[un]d[u]m chorum herb[ipole]n[sem].

Accession number:

PML 128824

Published:

[Würzburg] : Georg Reyser, [after 8 March 1495]

Description:

[12], i-xliiii, [20], xlix-CCxvii, [5] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Julia Wightman Fund and the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2001.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Speciale missarum s[e]c[un]d[u]m chorum herb[ipole]n[sem].
In dedication letter (leaf [1]/12r): ...p[er] fidele[m] et iuratu[m] n[ost]r[u]m Georiu[m] Reyser artis im[re]ssorie m[a]g[ist]r[u]m imp[re]ssari ac imprimi iussimus et fecimus... Datum in Civitate n[ost]ra herb[ipole]n[se] Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimo Nonagesimoquinto D[omi]nica invocavit.
Printed in Reyser's types 5:300G (canon), 4:182G (text), 4:182 (versicles), and 2:112aG (calendar and table).
Collation: [1¹²; 2-4¹⁰ 5⁴ 6¹⁰; 7⁶ 8⁸ 9⁶; 10⁸ 11⁶; 12-26¹⁰ 27⁸(5+1: Officium sancti Rochi)]: 249 leaves. Collation as in CIBN and Hubay(W).
Paper format: Chancery folio
Commissioned by Rudolf von Scherenberg, Bishop of Würzburg.
The dedication letter also explains that the price of the work is 1.25 Rhenish florins bound and 1 florin unbound.
Woodcut with arms of the chapter of Würzburg and Scherenberg (leaf [1]/12v) and Crucifixion (leaf [8]/1v) by Michael Wolgemut; arms copied from engraving by A.G. in Reyser's 1481 Würzburg missal.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 22.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [27]/10 (blank).

Binding:

16th-century German (likely Würzburg region) blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (33.5 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper front pastedown, and rear pastedown is a leaf from Nicolaus de Lyra's Postilla (Strasbourg: Mentelin, not after 1472), ISTC in00133000 (not printer's waste, a fully rubricated leaf); decorative endbands. 2 clasps, wanting. Leather tabs on fore edge.

Variant Title:

Missale speciale secundum chorum Herbipolensem

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards in canon added by hand; woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified round stamp, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); price codes, unidentified: assoo, struck out and changed to hssou (rear pastedown); Estelle Doheny (1875-1958), bookplate (front pastedown), purchased from Maggs Bros., 23 August 1943 for $800, donated to St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary (Perryville, MO), 1943; Doheny sale, Christie's NY, 14 Dec. 2001, lot 87; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased via H.P. Kraus, 14 Dec. 2001.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Color printing (Printing)

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